Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Sagnik Mitra]

Hello Alexei,
We are sorry to propose our "pile of nonsense" idea. Won't do it again.
Both of us liked the website, so thought of some improvement ideas. Good to
hear such words from you.
Also, we haven't mentioned our stacks or idea in detail regarding the "Full
Stack Community Platform with ***Zero*** ***Intelligent*** ***Ideas*** behind
it." as the "initial email" was for just asking if you would take it as a
valid project or not.
Didn't mean to infer anything else about the website or stack from our mail.
Thanks,

Sagnik Mitra & Manish Kumar Barnwal

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 6:46 PM Alexei Podtelezhnikov 
wrote:

> Our peers:
>
> https://skia.org/ is nice
> https://www.mesa3d.org/ is good
> https://www.openjpeg.org/ is good
> https://www.libpng.org/ is down
>
> In comparison, we stack pretty good. I do not see much need in
> improvement here. In other words, it's better be justified.
>
> Alexei
>

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Hi Sagnik,

Ok. In that case, you have to be specific about your ideas. What is that
you find messy and what to improve? General "Full Stack" won't fly with us.
You can submit your proposal to GSoC, but we do not give any guarantees up
front. We have limited number of slots and our priorities are identified.

Alexei

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 10:04 AM Sagnik Mitra 
wrote:

> Hello Alexei,
> We are sorry to propose our "pile of nonsense" idea. Won't do it again.
> Both of us liked the website, so thought of some improvement ideas. Good
> to hear such words from you.
> Also, we haven't mentioned our stacks or idea in detail regarding the "Full
> Stack Community Platform with ***Zero*** ***Intelligent*** ***Ideas*** behind
> it." as the "initial email" was for just asking if you would take it as a
> valid project or not.
> Didn't mean to infer anything else about the website or stack from our
> mail.
> Thanks,
>
> Sagnik Mitra & Manish Kumar Barnwal
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 6:46 PM Alexei Podtelezhnikov 
> wrote:
>
>> Our peers:
>>
>> https://skia.org/ is nice
>> https://www.mesa3d.org/ is good
>> https://www.openjpeg.org/ is good
>> https://www.libpng.org/ is down
>>
>> In comparison, we stack pretty good. I do not see much need in
>> improvement here. In other words, it's better be justified.
>>
>> Alexei
>>
>

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Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Our peers:

https://skia.org/ is nice
https://www.mesa3d.org/ is good
https://www.openjpeg.org/ is good
https://www.libpng.org/ is down

In comparison, we stack pretty good. I do not see much need in
improvement here. In other words, it's better be justified.

Alexei

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Nikhil Ramakrishnan]

> > Maybe that could be used as a starting point?
>
> Starting point for what?
>

This was in reference to Werner's suggestion to improve the website. When
we migrated the documentation to markdown, I had done a markdown version
for the contents of freetype.org as well (should still be live at
https://nikramakrishnan.github.io/freetype-web-jekyll/).

The initial email is a pile of nonsense: Backend to Frontend, Full
>
Stack Community Platform with ***Zero*** ***Intelligent*** ***Ideas***
> hehind it.
>

No objections here. The website stuff too isn't sufficient for a GSoC
project.


Thanks,
Nikhil

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

> Maybe that could be used as a starting point?

Starting point for what?

The initial email is a pile of nonsense: Backend to Frontend, Full
Stack Community Platform with ***Zero*** ***Intelligent*** ***Ideas***
hehind it.

Our documentation website is much better than our peers' ones. We did
transition to markdown website too. We use GitLab infrastructure to
support the developer community.

What else, Nikhil?

Thanks,
Alexei

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Nikhil Ramakrishnan]

Quick note: We do have a markdown version of the website from a few years
ago that we never actually transitioned to. Maybe that could be used as a
starting point?


Nikhil

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Manish,


> Through Community Platform, I meant a Full Stack Forum for the
> upcoming contributors or the Developers within where they can
> interact with each other.

Thanks for your offer, but no.  The 'official' communication channels
for FreeType are intentionally e-mail only.  Having other forums would
mean a lot of additional work for maintenance, which we can't afford
time-wise.

> And also, we have planned about improving the landing page and other
> linked pages, if you allow us to do so.

If you want to improve our website, please do so by submitting
*incremental improvements* as patches!  If you would like to do bigger
changes this must be discussed in advance on 'freetype-devel'.


Werner

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

Your proposal does not make sense to me at all. Therefore, I am vehemently
against it.

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Manish Kumar Barnwal]

Thank you for your response.

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 2:11 AM Alexei Podtelezhnikov 
wrote:

> Your proposal does not make sense to me at all. Therefore, I am vehemently
> against it.
>
>
>

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Manish Kumar Barnwal]

Hello Moazin,

Through Community Platform, I meant a Full Stack Forum for the upcoming
contributors or the Developers within where they can interact with each
other. And also, we have planned about improving the landing page and other
linked pages, if you allow us to do so.

Regards,
Manish

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 1:45 AM Moazin K  wrote:

> Hi Manish,
>
> What do you mean by Community Platform?
>
> Best,
> Moazin
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 1:10 AM Manish Kumar Barnwal <
> manishbarnwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Freetype Team,
>>
>> I am Manish Kumar Barnwal, a web development enthusiast, having
>> experience with Backend Development. I went through your community
>> platform. It seems quite messy and not user friendly according to me. As
>> you have given us the opportunity to share a project Idea of our own for
>> GSoC, so I want to discuss with you about building a community platform for
>> Freetype from scratch. I will collaborate with one of my mates Sagnik Mitra
>> to build the portal. He is efficient with the Frontend part and having good
>> prior experience in UI/UX Designing. So if you allow us to propose this
>> Idea with you, we could discuss it further and start planning for the
>> portal. Let us know your views on this. Thank You!!
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>>
>> Manish
>>
>

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Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

[Moazin K]

Hi Manish,

What do you mean by Community Platform?

Best,
Moazin

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 1:10 AM Manish Kumar Barnwal <
manishbarnwal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Freetype Team,
>
> I am Manish Kumar Barnwal, a web development enthusiast, having experience
> with Backend Development. I went through your community platform. It seems
> quite messy and not user friendly according to me. As you have given us the
> opportunity to share a project Idea of our own for GSoC, so I want to
> discuss with you about building a community platform for Freetype from
> scratch. I will collaborate with one of my mates Sagnik Mitra to build the
> portal. He is efficient with the Frontend part and having good prior
> experience in UI/UX Designing. So if you allow us to propose this Idea with
> you, we could discuss it further and start planning for the portal. Let us
> know your views on this. Thank You!!
>
>
> --
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Manish
>